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A day late, organizing some books, and I found this for #coverlove #hat

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This is a very touching depiction of how it feels to be an immigrant returning to your home country 20 or 30 years later. After the fall of communism in 1989 in Europe, Irena returns from Paris to Prague. She and others like her return led by nostalgia, but the ignorance, under all its forms, displayed by their relatives and former friends shows how absence can create a huge chasm between people, with no hope to reconnect with the past.

Our Icelandic tradition continues! We‘re cozied up by the fire with chocolates and our new books! I‘ve been dying to read this play, so I‘m thrilled. 😊

Interesting intersection of philosophy and psychology and historical fiction. Also interestingly found out it's Ari's favorite book. Enjoyed the insights into each character's mind and worldview.

First book of quarantine.

This is a slender little book that I keep picking up when I walk by the piles of books on my table whenever I go to let the dog out. This last time I decided the universe was telling me to pick it up. Maybe I‘ll learn something because as of right now, I‘m a crap gardener.

Gave up on the other grandmother book and started this one, which is much more to my taste. Božena Němcová is a famous 19th-century #Czech author (she's on the 500 Koruna banknote). The book title says it all 😁 Lovely sense of time and place. As expected in this kind of work, a lot of religiosity.

painting: Großmutter ist die Beste by Adolf Humborg, Wikimedia Commons

Enjoying #Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval's poetry collection #Prague with Fingers of Rain and looking through the (mostly disappointing) photos we took when we spent a lovely week there back in 2008...

https://youtu.be/BhiPsquNRXc

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Weekly Highlights

The Imaginary Lives Of James Pōneke by Tina Makereti

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson

And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiří Weil, Marie Winn (Translator)

No Bones by Anna Burns